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How impunity works: an interview with Euromaidan lawyer Evgeniya Zakrevska

Five years after Euromaidan, lawyer Evgeniya Zakrevska talks about its long aftermath and levels of trust between the police and the public.

How impunity works: an interview with Euromaidan lawyer Evgeniya Zakrevska
Evgeniya Zakrevska - Personal Archive. Used with permission of Evgeniya Zakrevskaya
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Ukrainian courts are still examining cases connected to crimes committed during the country’s Euromaidan revolution in 2013-2014. Defendants include former riot police officers from the Berkut unit and titushki, otherwise unidentified groups of men who provoked violence during the revolution.

In February this year, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General announced that the investigation of crimes committed during Euromaidan was finished.

Lawyer Evgeniya Zakrevska, who represents the interests of the families of people injured and killed during Maidan, doesn’t agree with these findings. Here, Zakrevska speaks about how Ukrainian riot police, prosecutors and investigators are working five years on.